ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH CENTRE LIMITED

Registered charity 1149601 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

St Michael's Church Centre Ltd operates the St Michael's Church Centre to serve both the Parish of St Michael's Stoke Gifford and the community as well as the wider church and to advance the Christian religion.

Objects

The charitable purposes of the Charity are to advance the Christian religion by providing facilities for St Michael’s church (Stoke Gifford) and other Christian organisations locally, regionally and nationally, for meetings, mission and outreach and, provided there is sufficient capacity remaining, to offer the facilities to local schools, community groups, charities and to other users, in a noticeably Christian setting; and any such other charitable purposes as shall, in the opinion of the Trustees, put into practice the Christian Religion, including but not limited to prevention and relief of need, hardship and sickness; the advancement of education; the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time of groups and individuals which have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, financial hardship or social circumstances with the object of improving conditions of life; provided that the advancement of such purposes be undertaken in a manner consistent with the Christian religion.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: South Gloucestershire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £32,058 for the year, resulting in total reserves of £5,993,270. The trustees consider the charity financially healthy and solvent for the foreseeable future, with free reserves of £159,152 exceeding the stated policy target of £133,000.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gravita Audit Western Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08242432 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BRIDGFORD, Kathryn — director, appointed 21/10/2024on trustee list
• FAIRCHILD, Richard — director, appointed 21/10/2024on trustee list
• PILCH, David Robert — director, appointed 04/05/2022on trustee list
• FARRELL, Robert James — director, appointed 17/01/2022on trustee list
• SWEETNAM, Caroline — director, appointed 12/10/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~135.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (69% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/10/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Sweetnam
• David Robert Pilch · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kathryn Bridgford
• Richard Fairchild
• Robert James Farrell · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Bristol City · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST MICHAEL'S SOUTHFIELDS.

• ST MICHAEL'S SOUTHFIELDS income £30k
• St Michael's Community Church income £36k
• ST MICHAEL'S CENTRE (BISHOP'S CLEEVE) income £50k
• St Michael's Community Centre income £80k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS WITH ST. JAMES - CROYDON income £286k
• ST MICHAEL'S FAMILY CENTRE income £597k

Side by side with its peers

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